Adultery The Facilitator

[Harry Jordan]

I don't personally think that Kunal is a wimp in this story , not once. But on a literary note , I found Kunal's character to be a cliche. The usual husband who looses everything rhetoric. But now his character is getting some fresh makeover with him getting pushed to find the truth where now his dynamic changes.

In fact, it’s not cliché anymore, accepting that his wife is a cheater and now she has fallen in love with another man is fresh thought and innovative than running around hurt and trying to make his wife suffer, By accepting this fact that his wife though cheated him badly, but craved something more than what was available in their marriage is definitely not cliché , By Kunal accepting that and making peace with it, if readers would think him as a wimp, then it’s a perspective of individual reader. In fact him standing on his own and taking divorce from his wife itself shows he has moved on from his wife despite getting hurt, he is not willing to stand and let his wife continue her relationship with Aniket, there lies his victory and I don’t know why you are not satisfied with that simple stand taken by a husband…I guess your relief comes from a fact that Esha has to suffer and face consequences to a larger scale to be able to justify the satisfaction for a husband who got cheated. I can understand that, but I feel Esha’s woes have almost over unless she fails to conceive her unborn kid or loses custody to Aditya, it’s time for Priya to face consequences more than Esha.
 
For him , Aditya will be his son and he will love him and care for him as a single parent but he will never accept a cordial relation with Esha because it will be foolish to approach that kind of relation considering the magnitude of cheating that she has done to Kunal.

Do you think Kunal will have a choice, He has to follow court’s order and have to be cordial in maintaining the join custody of Aditya. No matter how bad Esha did to Kunal, she is still Aditya’s mother and thinking this only from her standpoint is not correct. Aditya craves her a lot and it will leave significant impact if he loses his mother, so there won’t be much choice for Kunal but to accept joint parenting. Alternative is to leave Aditya to Esha for ever and move on, which I doubt Kunal will ever be able to do it. Losing him after losing his wife would be very difficult to endure.


Definitely we agree to disagree, from your point I get it you are satisfied as long as the man isn't a wimp and makes the right decision. But in my point of view, I cannot see it to be the best approach for the character to be limited in that sense. I would always prefer a character showing some improvements based on their failures and tries to be better in the future. Not have the failures in their life to be just a bad memory but a means of motivation to do better ,  adapt and evolve. I don't believe Kunal should have an amicable relation with Esha because it will negate his character development now , because that would mean he is willing to forgive her.

Why do you think Kunal character needs improvement? He has done nothing wrong; he is not someone who is badly performing in bed, nor does he ignore his duties as husband or father, then why do you think there needs to be room for improvements and He did not cause the failure of his marriage so him leaving his wife is justifiable enough punishment for his wife with in his reach. She lost the companion who has stood with her thick and thin since their college days and she is aware of her loss and so Kunal did what he could do within his limit to punish Esha. He tried to take Aditya away but that is not in his control, not only because Law doesn’t allow it but also because he couldn’t see his son suffer the trauma of losing his mother. Also, co-parenting means it can be done by just discussing what’s needed to be done. Today, lot of couples do co parenting with out even a word between them, Kids just spend half time with mother and another half with father. So Kunal, if needs to maintain that co-parenting status, he has to set certain conversations and limit it to those as much possible. By maintaining that relationship with Esha will not negate his character development, in fact it will show Esha that despite her cheating, Kunal is perfectly alright in his life, and he is not at her mercy. The only thing that I could think that Kunal can do more to hurt Esha is to leak that there is physical relationship between client and her so she can lose her job based on morality in client vendor relationship status quo. Though I would think it’s petty for Kunal to do it and stoop to her level.
 
Some should have lifelong consequences , especially for Esha who still haven't shown any remorse or regrets for her actions towards Kunal and is still having her best and happy moments with Aniket.

She regrets her actions and we can see it, its not like she has to walk against a moving truck and give her life away for the deeds she has done, Its written in earlier chapters that if possible to turn time back she would not have gone into that café to meet Aniket, that shows she knows her actions and she regrets them…that’s all you can hope for in this story, esp when the person with whom she cheated is in love with her, chances of her suffering more is limited. Compare that to Meera and Prabhu, Prabhu never loved Meera..that's the difference. 

I don't want Kunal to be given the "Jon Snow" treatment , where he is given this wonderful character development but then as the end comes he is reduced to a side quest with no purpose and a retarded ending for that matter. Kunal deserves the "Aragorn" treatment , he should learn from his mistakes and hurt and adapt to be better. But like I said , agree to disagree , you are fine with less dynamic for the character, but I kind of like some more for it thats all.

He will have happy ending; you just jump guns right from first chapter and seek redemption for male leads lol ...have patience . You can see now things changed for Kunal but you have been impatient to see it change…same way you will see he will get the best ending of all three if not then you can blast the author lol

Also,
I do not agree on the outcome of game40it story but we can agree to disagree, I do not have problem with Saravanan. I do have problems with Meera, her realization, her regrets, her remorse for doing sins are all unrealistic. It’s like a switch as soon as she knows that her husband has known her cheating all along, she changes from one spectrum to another and it’s not even close to reality. Anyways, lets leave that story.

~RCF

Like I said I am somewhat fine by Kunal's characterization and his reasoning. Its natural , he is heartbroken and in anger so there is justification to his action. And please I don't want Kunal to ruin Esha's life himself or anything. At this point , my expectation in this story is just Kunal to become the hero in this story , become the trump card in Priya's game and beat her in her own turf and expose her to Esha. That is definitely my expectation , as for Esha and Kunal finding closure. I believe on a story line perspective not on character based one , that Esha will have to live a long term consequences for her actions. And in a way the story has already set those consequences up with how she has an ailing father and a young Aditya to raise alone. Her father dying from her actions would be the start of her emotional turmoil , then its pretty obvious Aditya's childhood is in pretty danger considering he is young and he will be going to his educational place and when the news about the details regarding Esha and Kunal's divorce become public , things might start to get a bit unease for him in his place of education. Esha will be forced to face the blunt of it since society will definitely paint her as a slut and if we are considering Aniket's rich status and him being much older than Esha , she also fills the qualification of a Gold Digger. She will basically be Kareena Kapoor but with decent behavior 



As for her regrets , I don't know , maybe I am not convinced by the wordings or its the duality of her situation. At times she feels regrets and then the next moment she is a sexual slave for Aniket acting all submissive towards him. These kinds of actions make me believe that Kunal is actually being saved from a terrible woman to be honest considering the amount of submission she does for Aniket. And what's ironic is Priya manipulated her with the concept of "feminism" to entire Esha to go towards Aniket and now she is behaving like a common slut for him. Don't forget Aniket had a desire to impregnate Esha because he had a fantasy to drink her breast milk. We still don't know how much Aniket's story has any feeling or genuiness. He ruined a marriage to get his woman , what is stopping him to seek another woman to fullfill his sexual desires. After all he is a rich man , and even old for that matter. For now I will reserve my judgement regarding Aniket because there is still a lot of blank spaces regarding him.


As for the Kunal ending , I definitely believe that he will get his due. Considering how much he is involved now this is his prime moment for that matter. He is going to be the one who breaks the game and give Priya the punishment she deserves. In all honesty , the only character with whom I really wish death as a punishment is indeed Priya. And it should not be a quick one , she deserves a brutal death for her actions. Although I don't want Kunal to be directly responsible for it , just completely break Priya's spirit and mentality and send her spiralling to her end. And then bring closure to his equation with Esha and remove her importance in his life. Be a dutiful co parent and focus more on Aditya's well being. Because in all honesty , considering if we take a time leap for the story in the epilogue , A grown up Aditya would consider spending more time with his father since he will realize the mistake Esha did. Because lets be clear , I don't want Esha punished by Kunal , but her consequences should not give her a life of full on happiness. Let her have a good life with Aniket and this new baby  , but she will forever be living with the wounds of her former marriage and witnessing an older Aditya preferring his father over his mother. And believe me RCF , I ain't arguing with you about that. I mean we both kind of want the same thing for Kunal's ending and that is for him to be a victor , and he will. Only difference is I want his victory to be more prepostorous than a simple one. 


As for the game40it story , I too agree to that , I didn't like the ending to that story. But Saravana was definitely one of the best characters I have read in these kinds of stories. As for Meera's thing like I said , its more of a conservative and feminine approach in that matter considering Meera is a rural woman. I believe her reaction fits her upbringing and her nature since her life was pretty simple. Plus her affair with Prabhu wasn't exactly love because she didn't see a future so for her to realize her husband getting to know the affair was a massive hurt to her mind. But I understand your opinion and agree we shouldn't discuss that here.

BTW , I recently saw a movie called VISFOT starring Riteish Deshmukh and Fardeen Khan and ironically Riteish is basically playing a Kunal type character in the movie , his wife cheats on him and the movie ends in the best way for his arc. I would want you to check it out , though I should warn the movie is pretty boring , I only liked Riteish's arc and surprisingly his storyline reminds me of this story.